Here we are, Selection Sunday, and the bubble has officially gone quiet.

It doesn’t always go this way. Most years, there is at least some leftover drama still to play out in the spare hours before the selection committee reveals the NCAA Tournament bracket, at least one bubble team that fought all the way to one of the handful of conference championships still yet to be decided, or an obvious bid thief still on the board.

Not this time. Even Saturday was destined to be quieter than usual: Florida, Memphis and Utah State were the only three teams both on the page and in action. The Gators fell narrowly to Auburn. Utah State handled business in the Mountain West title game. And Memphis lost by three to Houston in an American semifinal — so the final team listed in our “work to do” category fell off the page. (Memphis was there for all of a day. It was a good run!)

Those last two results were key in the other aspect of potential bubble...